This course introduces students to writing as a conscious and developmental activity. Students learn to read, think, and write in response to a variety of texts, to integrate their ideas with those of others, and to treat writing as recursive process. Through this work with texts, students are exposed to a range of reading and writing techniques they can employ in other courses and are introduced to fundamental skills of information literacy. Students work individually and collaboratively, participate in peer review, and learn to take more responsibility for their writing development. Placement into this course is determined by multiple measures, including high school achievement and SAT scores. (Cripps).

In this course we learn many skills, such as; active reading, integrating ideas, revision processes, peer review, MLA format (citations), and identifying individualized error. These habits are crucial to have in order to succeed later in my academic career. Through active reading I have learned to use a rhetorical frame of mind when reading and identify the significance of the specific words and phrases the author chooses to use in their writing. Being able to integrate ideas is a critical skill to have in your writing because it allows you to relate the work of multiple texts together and expand your ideas. Revision processes are also of the utmost importance because they give you the opportunity to see where your individualized errors are, and where you have the opportunity to expand your claims and use text evidence. Peer review lets you see other peoples’ work and helps you and your peers. The MLA format is something which is crucial to understand in writing because it is the standard for most writing assignments. The last habit is to identify your individualized errors through proof reading, peer review, and revising your drafts, this will finalize your work and make sure the paper makes sense.